This is another blog, written on Thursday and posted today by FairyLand helper Ben Reynolds.

After a reasonably good night sleep by the fairy crew we all woke ready to create a magical workshop space. In no time at all we had the medieval tent ready once again for Fairy Crowns, Magic Wands and Fairy Books, with enough room for the booking booth to accommodate all of our lovely seed wands.

Ready for action!

 

With everything set up and ready for tomorrow, some of us took a walk to try and find the beach! This proved harder than we originally thought; if you were thinking that a big, wet expanse of blue would be easy to find you would be wrong! At least, it’s not easy for us northern folk anyway, we climbed steep hills and cliff sides in the mid-day heat of Lulworth to try and get to the sea. At the very top we could see for miles around including a great view of Camp Bestival and the central point itself; Lulworth Castle. Whilst others turned back, others carried on, till eventually we could see the surf. However in our way was the steepest path that any of us had ever seen! So resting a while on the edge we agreed that getting back up this path in time for the morning workshop may prove difficult! So turning our backs on the beach we headed away back to Camp! On our walk we happened to come across some familiar flowers from some of the workshops, including Harebells, Yarrow and Field Scabious

The not so small hill we thought would be easy to climb.

Camp Bestival doesn't look too big from up here!

Fairy Abbie and I running on the hillside.

So close to the beach, but still so far!

Harebells, to let the fairies know there's a party.

 

At dusk, while it was nice and cool, some of us went off into the woods to collect foliage. It’s amazing what a little greenery can do to a tent! As the site has begun to darken once again and the littler members of the fairy crew are tucked away fast asleep, we have all begun to drift back to our crew camp. Even though we didn’t quite make it to the beach, the local countryside was more than enough as compromise and I think we will all sleep well tonight, ready for the first bit of FairyLand magic to begin at Camp Bestival tomorrow.

Well worth the climb!